Measures proposed by the Government of India in view to relieving the Sanitary Commissioners in India of statistical duties
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pp 71-74. Resolution of the Government of India. Separate compilation of jail statistics to be discontinued, and compiled instead by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India.
Establishment of a quarantine station at Bassidore [Bāsa'īdū]
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pp 75-84. Correspondence and copy telegrams regarding the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf; quarantine measures adopted by the Egyptian Sanitary Board; initial plans for temporarily moving the Bushire Residency to Bassidore and establishing a quarantine; the trade of...
pp 85-90. Two letters received by the Secretary of State for India from Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), former Chief Executive Officer of the First General Board of Health, England.
Quarantine prescribed for vessels arriving in Egypt from a suspected port
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p 677. The Consul-General at Cairo forwards copy telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt, advising that vessels arriving without a bill of health or surgeon on board will be subjected to a three day quarantine observation.
Inspection of the sanitary condition of villages in the neighbourhood of Cantonments in Bengal
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pp 643-48. Remarks on the proposed inspection regime made by J M Coates, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Bengal; plus comments thereon by the Government of India.
General review of the working of Lock Hospitals throughout the Local Governments and Administrations
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pp 679-782. Reports and related correspondence received from the Local Governments and Administrations of the Bengal Lower Provinces, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, the Punjab, the Central Provinces, Burma, and Hyderabad, regarding the workings of Lock Hospitals and the local application of th...